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Faculty

Xiaoyan  Zhang

Xiaoyan Zhang

Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD, Columbia

Professor Zhang's research interests include empirical asset pricing, international finance and applied econometrics. Her teaching interests are investments and derivatives. She published in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of International Money and Finance. She received the Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance for 2001, BSI Gamma Research Fund for 2003 and 2005, Q Group Research Fund for 2004 and Lamfalussy Fellowship from European Central Bank for 2007.

Professor Zhang's vita

Professor Zhang's Web site


Selected Publications and Working Papers

Evaluating the Specification Errors of Asset Pricing Models (with Robert Hodrick), Journal of Financial Economics, 2001, 62, 327-376.

Specification Tests of International Asset Pricing Models, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2006, 25, 275-307.

The Cross-Section of Volatility and Expected Returns (with Andrew Ang, Robert Hodrick, and Yuhang Xing), Journal of Finance, 2006, 61, 259-299.

Which Shorts Are Informed? (with Ekkehart Boehmer and Charles Jones), Journal of Finance, lead article, 2008, 63, 491-527. This paper won BSI Gamma Foundation Award.

High Idiosyncratic Volatility and Low Returns: International and Further U.S. Evidence (with Andrew Ang, Robert Hodrick, and Yuhang Xing), Forthcoming at Journal of Financial Economics.

International Stock Return Comovement (with Geert Bekaert and Robert Hodrick), Forthcoming at Journal of Finance.

What Does Individual Option Volatility Smirk Tell Us About Future Equity Returns? (with Yuhang Xing and Rui Zhao), Forthcoming at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Evaluating Asset Pricing Models Using the Second Hansen-Jagannathan Distance (with Haitao Li and Yuewu Xu), Conditionally accepted at Journal of Financial Economics


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